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Adoption of ARM big.LITTLE Technology Accelerates

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 5:00 AM

ARM today unveiled that its big.LITTLE
processing technology has been adopted by many of the world’s
leading mobile chip manufacturers. Samsung and Renesas Mobile have
already announced their plans, and subsequent implementations will be
revealed during 2013 by five more companies including CSR, Fujitsu
Semiconductor and MediaTek. ARM big.LITTLE technology saves up to 70
percent of processor energy consumption in common mobile workload tasks,
essential as the performance of the smartphone has jumped by 60x since
2000 and 12x since 2008, causing a massive increase in both content
generation and consumption.

With tablets and smartphones out-shipping PCs and some 1 billion
smartphones expected to ship in 2013, there is an explosive growth in
smart mobile devices. Users now want a richer mobile experience, and it
is low-power technologies like big.LITTLE that are making previously
impossible experiences possible - such as instantaneous browsing,
console-quality gaming and days, rather than hours, of battery life.

ARM big.LITTLE processing technology addresses the challenge of creating
a system-on-chip (SoC) that meets the diverse needs of smartphones and
other mobile devices. These conflicting demands require a smartphone to
deliver high-performance when needed, while also extending the battery
life. ARM big.LITTLE technology increases the dynamic performance range
and energy efficiency of the mobile device while being completely
transparent to the extensive range of applications available today for
ARM processor-based platforms.

The big.LITTLE solution pairs the industry’s highest performance
Cortex™-A15 processor, delivering up to 2x more performance than today’s
smartphones, with the ultra-efficient Cortex-A7 processor and the ARM
CoreLink™ Cache Coherent Interconnect (CCI-400), which together enable
devices to seamlessly use the right processor for the right task based
on performance requirements to deliver the best user experience and
optimal energy usage. Future implementations may also pair the
Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 processors.

“big.LITTLE processor technology builds on ARM low-power leadership and
sets a new standard for high performance and energy-efficient
processing. By reducing processor energy consumption by up to 70 percent
on common workloads, big.LITTLE technology enables users to do more with
their smartphones for longer,” said Simon Segars, president, ARM. “As
smartphones and tablets continue to evolve into users' primary compute
device, our partners are increasingly looking to ARM for innovations to
help them deliver performance as well as the always-on, always-connected
service their customers expect."

“In addition to being suitable for smartphones and mobile computing
devices, ARM big.LITTLE technology enables the development of powerful,
yet low power consumption SoC for a broad range of embedded
applications,” said Mitsugu Naito, executive vice president, Advanced
Products BU, Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited. “Our SoC development
expertise coupled with ARM big.LITTLE processing technology will provide
the market with the combined performance and low power required for the
next generation of innovative embedded products.”

“big.LITTLE processing is the next logical extension after symmetric
multi-processing to increase performance in a mobile device within the
same power budget,” said Johan Lodenius, chief marketing officer,
MediaTek. “We look forward to extending the capabilities of our
extremely successful multi-core chipsets through the use of big.LITTLE
processing, bringing new experiences to smartphones.”

“In an era when smartphones and tablets are evolving into the user’s
primary compute device, Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa, as the industry-first
big.LITTLE enabled application processor, will drive innovation to bring
outstanding user experience by handling diverse mobile workloads while
also being optimized for power consumption,” said Tae-Hoon Kim, vice
president of System LSI marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics.

“Data usage is dramatically increasing as the mobile internet becomes
more accessible for customers. As such we’re seeing the consumption of
HD content and multimedia services increase and new connected
experiences emerge,” said Yves Maitre, senior vice president, Mobile
Multimedia and Devices, Orange. “To make the most of the advances in
high-speed mobile networks, operators and device manufacturers need to
have high-performance, energy-efficient processing power, such as ARM
Cortex processors and big.LITTLE technology, to continue the growth in
the connected device market and create new experiences.”

“Battery consumption is an important factor with the use of smartphones,
especially with the exponential growth of data use that we are seeing
today. ARM Cortex processors and big.LITTLE processing have great
potential to help increase smartphone performance and energy
efficiency,” commented Von McConnell, Director at Sprint.

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About ARM

ARM designs the technology that is at the heart of advanced digital
products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions
to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM’s
comprehensive product offering includes RISC microprocessors, graphics
processors, video engines, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded
memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals and development
tools. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support
and maintenance, and the company’s broad Partner community, they provide
a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for
leading electronics companies. Find out more about ARM by following
these links:

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